With data security and privacy concerns, the White House is officially threatening to veto the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which was designed to facilitate information sharing between technology companies and intelligence agencies.

Many companies have been attempting to adopt a BYOD (Bring your own Device) policy, but not many are quite so secretive about their information as the U.S. Army is, thereby making security paramount in the quest for allowing workers to bring their own devices.

Many countries have been investigating Google and their methods of data protection and privacy, but it seems Google is coming under some especially vigorous scorn from six countries in the European Union after not making requested changes to privacy policies.

Many Internet browsers were saddened earlier this month when they found out Google was going to completely shut down its Reader service. Initially, The Los Angeles Times said the closing was due to low usage, but a report by AllThingsD shows that the company killed it because they didn’t want to have to keep updating the privacy laws of the program.

Every field seems to be doing its own diligence on how securing cloud computing will work for them. Even the healthcare industry, which is usually reticent to investing in new technology if there is a risk factor, is looking at the risk-versus-benefit analysis of the cloud and taking the security issue head on, according to Health IT Security.

Information technology departments across the world have been starting to collect big data to improve how the company works, but there are some data protection concerns that go with this method of data hoarding, according to a recent analysis by Ovum.

For industries like healthcare, there is no doubt cloud computing can be a positive force if done correctly. Cloud-based electronic health record, for example, can give doctors a better ability to access records quickly, understand their patients and more easily diagnose diseases.